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#5,617 All-time worldwide
#31 1978 releases

Movie profile

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

1978 · 111 min · Universal Pictures

Adventure Music Comedy Science Fiction
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $20.4M
Budget $18.0M
Gross minus budget $2.4M
ROI 1.13x

Domestic gross

$8.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$12.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #5,617 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1978 releases #31 Release-year chart position of 89 titles Ranked against movies released in 1978. Studio / company #237 Universal Pictures of 377 titles Position inside the mapped Universal Pictures movie set. Primary genre #1,309 Adventure of 2,138 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

#5,614 F.I.S.T. 1978 · $20.4M #5,615 The Clan 2015 · $20.4M #5,616 Promising Young Woman 2020 · $20.4M #5,618 Ladies in Lavender 2004 · $20.4M #5,619 Polisse 2011 · $20.4M #5,620 Showgirls 1995 · $20.4M

Quick answer

How did Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) earned a reported $20.4M worldwide against a reported $18.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $2.4M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.13x. In this database it currently ranks #5,617 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #31 among 1978 releases.

Worldwide gross
$20,378,470
Budget
$18,000,000
Gross minus budget
$2,378,470
ROI
1.13x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-time machinations of the music biz. Now, they must thwart a plot to destroy their home town. Built around the music of The Beatles, this musical uses some big name groups like Peter Frampton and Aerosmith.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jul 21, 1978
Production
Universal Pictures, Robert Stigwood Organization, NF Geria II Filmgesellschaft m.b.H.
Countries
DE, GB, US

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyUniversal Pictures Release year chart1978 box office Genre chartAdventure Genre chartMusic Genre chartComedy Genre chartScience Fiction

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1978, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is positioned in this dataset as a Adventure, Music, Comedy title from Universal Pictures. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $20.4M, reported production budget is $18.0M, gross-minus-budget is $2.4M, ROI is 1.13x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,617 all-time in the current chart set and #31 among 1978 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.